Dominance Games: Degenerative politics

Degenerative politics and lack of reason based dialogue or policies aimed at a broadening of the base of those with a stake in participatory democracy leads quite naturally and quite rationally to politics based upon the obtaining of the love of the more and most virulent of peoples, to going after those few pickings left to be had in ways worthy of necessary survival.

The lesser pies, the lesser options for thought, for belonging, for cultural inclusions, for paths to worthwhile labor, worthwhile opportunity, education, realistic sustainable markets with money, are all there to be met with deadening dismissiveness by those who wish only their accruals of the powers available.

As it is always in such things use of power for power’s sake is an end unto itself. The more firmly based on doctrinaire, unquestioning thought a system may become, the more prone it is to be mastered by those whose strategy is the imposition of stringent rules of behavior, stringent rules for thought, more purity of vision, more muscling out of opposition in the name of holy virtue. The game goes always here to the muscle, the power. The rewards go to the partisans, the toadies. The system goes the way of all such systems …to the dogs of war, the dogs of rulers of might, the dogs of unreasoned arbitrary law.

The power to maximize the shrinking collateral-able resources of a bankrupt society is always the aim of the rats who cannot leave a sinking ship. Strength and intellectual thuggery is always the unthuggish currency, the be all and end all. The rest is all dressed up as excuse.